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The Shining

This masterpiece of modern horror builds relentlessly to an absolutely chilling and horrifying climax, as a little boy's psychic powers reveal the evil lurking in an old hotel.

'Salem's Lot

Far from the township, two frightened people share the unspeakable secrets of 'Salem's Lot. They know they must return — to confront the diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death.

Night Shift

All manner of night creatures, vampires, demon lovers and things that live in closets, are waiting to make your blood run cold in these twenty spine-tingling tales.

Carrie

Humiliated at her senior prom, Carrie's secret power becomes a weapon of horror and destruction, turning a quiet New England town into a ghastly vision of hell.
--front flap

991 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1981

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991 pages, Hardcover
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January 1, 1981 by Octopus/Heinemann
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Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.

He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

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ProxyProx
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April 17,2025
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This was the first adult novel I read. It was also the first book I borrowed from the library. This was the exact edition although this review is just for The Shining section. I think I was 12 and what drew me to this book was the opening line, "Officious little p*&!k.". I am not going to check but I'm sure that's right. My juvenile thought process may have attracted me to the book but one of the best storytellers the world has ever known kept my engrossed to the end. What a book! I am still massive fan today and I was so excited when I saw Doctor Sleep in a bookshop and understood it was a sequel. Anyway back to The Shining. Stephen King is a master story teller although I do think in a lot of books he doesn't finish as strong as he starts. Not so with The Shining, he knocks it out of the park from page one to page... err.... well the last page.
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AestheticLaifu
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April 17,2025
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the crowning jwel of this one is the shining
the others are classic and enjoyable as well and as hell
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iwCJ
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April 17,2025
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The Shining--up all night reading. Salems Lot--up all night checking the windows.
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LinwayFairy
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April 17,2025
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'Salem's Lot has got to be one of the best contemporary horror stories ever written!
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